San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-18
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From all Parts of the Globe, Con-
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steamship, Great Eastern, sou lor
$4,000.
DR.. Lewis, OF the Rochester obserya-
tory, discovers another comet.
The Wisconsin, G.. A. X. censure
Growers veto Of the pension bill.
The general assembly X. Of L. does
not sanction the Phil Armour boycott.
Government expenditures this month
are In excess OF receipts, to date.
The dead lock in the New Jersey and
West Virginia legislatures continues un-
broken.
Boulanger will not agree to release
the trained French conscripts hom
monthly drill.
Attorney Grinnell, of Chicago, says he
has evidence sufficient to convict every
boOdler commissioner in the county and
that he will do Ii.
The Lynchburg virginian, after con-
tinuing its publication seventy-nine
years, suspends.::
The st. Louis grand jury has returned
indictmenty against twenty-five addi-
tional election frauders.
After two years. delay the courts ao-
quit WithrOw, charged with placing
dynamite upon the st. Louis street car
tracks, during the strike at that time.
MIR. and Mrs. Cleveland gave a state
dinner to the supreme court last night.
Next Tuesdays reception closes state
entertainments for this season.
The snow sheds at Blue Canyon, Col,
collapse under snow pressure. Snow
plow Is ditohed and three road officers
are reported missing.
The attempt to pack juries in Ireland
In the interest OF the prosecution will be
brought to the notice Of parliament by
60 members.
Two Of the dynamite wreokers OF the
Suffer and Geary cable lines. San Fran.
cisco. have been captured with bombs in
their hands.
Horse purchasers who have been buy
Illinois and Kentucky, are supposed to
be buying for the English army.
The investigation into the Washing.
ton county election fraud continues, and
evokes about the same state of affairs as
was reported in the papers. intimids-
ton, stealing Of ballot boxes, and muir
der Of negroes.
The minority OF the house committee
on foreign affairs recommend to the
house the adoption OF the senate bill as
most In the line Of the expressed wishes
Of congress as evidenced In the discus
sion to date.
Louis Lawson, a wife murderer of
Denison, who has been at large since
last September, was captured by a rail-
road hand at Texarkana and handed
to the authorities.
John Cole arrested and Jailed, at
Marietta, Ohio, on strong suspicion of
having been implicated In the Rayenna
officer murder on train, escaped from his
cell. released the other prisoners and
skipped.
In the ed-Thompson killing case at
Waco, testimony was offered, showing
that, two Of Sneed's brothers-in law
(Pippins) had hand 10 the killing.
Warrants for their arrest have been Is
sued.
The mutual district telegraph ines
sengers, of New York, to the number of
100, strike. The fines levied upon them
are too exaoting, and the boys will not
return unless some change Ia made.
Germany's ambassador to Turkey say 8
that If Bulgaria does not settle her diff
culties by negotions now pending, Russia
will occupy the country with consent OF
Germany and Austria.
The Chicago boodlers, growing des-
perate, have attempted to force the vault
In the lawyers Office and capture the
state attorneys papers. 1t was fail
ure, and now the war will be to the Bit
ter end.
A new steamship line, between San
Diego, CAL, and San Jose, Guatamala,
with intermediate points in Mexico and
Central America, has been established
to commence running August /.
William +. Brigham, prominent law
yer of Boston, is arrested for $l7, 900 en-
bezzlement, the property OF two old
ladies which he held as trustee. The
money was spent in southern invest
ments.
The Palmer Sullivan syndicate have
purchased the jay Gould property al
New Laredo, q half interest in the iron
bridge, 1880 miles Of completed track
and a large quantity Of railroad mate.
rial.
Mira. Polly Gray, of Harmony Hill
this state, was burned to death Tuesday
She was Sc years Of age, and subject tC
fits Of vertigo, In one of which she fell
upon shovel of live Goals she was car
rying and could not help herself.
The shortage OF Judge Joseph. de.
faulting treasurer of the Texas Grand
Lodge, /. o. o. F., is causing great ex-
oitement among the three linked breth.
rem, some of whom think that IN
due haste was made In giving the mattel
aublicity.
Jim Bulleyjack, Of Davidson county,
Tennessee, hired Elisha Greig to fire the
house In which Mics Matte Arment
who had refused Bulleyjack, was sleep
ing. She escaped cremation with hel
hostess, Mrs. Hamlet, and Greig was ar
rested on suspicion. He confessed and
the officers are on Bulleyjack's trail.
Cleveland dominates Aldrich, OF Mass.
assistant treasurer at Boston; Mercer, Of
| Iowa, surveyor OF customs at Burling
ton. lows, and Mclaughlin, surveyor OF
customs at Dubuque, same state; Delan
sey of Wisconsin, collector Of customs
for Atlanta; Armstrong, postmaster a
| Cleveland; and Broyles,Of Colorado lane
office register at Del Norte.
| England has taken time by the fore
lock In her new mail transportation con
tracts with the White Star line. In this
new arrangement the terms Of mail car
rage in time Of peace and the subsid!
| to be paid for armed cruisers in tn,
event Of war are alike arranged. In,
contract Is complete, specific in all 1T
details and will relieve England in tn
event Of war from the ruinOus charges
for ocean service that she would other
wise be compelled to pay.
A Pullman passenger on the train be